John Stuart Mill Quotes & Sayings (Page 4)

“In all intellectual debates, both sides tend to be correct in what they affirm, and wrong in what they deny.”

“Eccentricity has always abounded when and where strength of character had abounded; and the amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and courage which it contained.”

“That so few now dare to be eccentric, marks the chief danger of the time.”

“Pleasure and freedom from pain, are the only things desirable as ends.”

“Whatever crushes individuality is despotism, by whatever name it may be called and whether it professes to be enforcing the will of God or the injunctions of men.”

“We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavouring to stifle is a false opinion; and even if we were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.”

“The despotism of custom is everywhere the standing hindrance to human advancement.”

“The duty of man is the same in respect to his own nature as in respect to the nature of all other things, namely not to follow it but to amend it.”

“As long as justice and injustice have not terminated their ever renewing fight for ascendancy in the affairs of mankind, human beings must be willing, when need is, to do battle for the one against the other.”

“No slave is a slave to the same lengths, and in so full a sense of the word, as a wife is.”